East Kent Pathology Network digitises specimen requests
The East Kent Pathology Network has implemented a new information capture system called Indicus from information capture specialists Kofax, to electronically scan pathology specimen request forms. The new system should help East Kent Pathology Network – which covers four acute trusts – to better manage and process incoming pathology specimen request forms, saving time and […]
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Ipswich installs first national programme iCM
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust to receive an iSoft iCM clinical system under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) after local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation deployed the system with the iPM patient administration system (PAS) last weekend. As well as the Ipswich deployment, CSC also implemented an iPM PAS in […]
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Fujitsu signs pathology contracts with three trusts
Three NHS trusts in the South of England have signed contracts totalling £5.5m with Fujitsu Services to provide them with Cerner’s PathNet pathology suite integrated with Cerner Millennium. The contracts will run until 2013. The three trusts are Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust, East Kent Hospitals and Medway NHS Trust, Kent. The PathNet system is […]
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Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out
Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly when a patient goes home. The hospitals’ newly-installed Info-flex system from Chameleon Information Management Services (CIMS) collects the relevant clinical data and produces a discharge summary. The summary is sent electronically via the Anglia Healthcare messaging […]
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NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing
GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to the lab for analysis. Hand-written request forms and labels will be phased out over the next six months under an initiative from Informing Healthcare Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government programme set up to modernise the […]
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CSC delivers seven new systems in North East and East
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings, in the first two weeks of taking over responsibility as local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North East and East of England. Rotherham Primary Care Trust in South Yorkshire has gone […]
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Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter
Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project should be ready to begin by Easter. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium yesterday, Granger said that the delayed project summary record will be ready to begin rollout to initial pilot trusts by Easter. Dr […]
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Bury PCT starts using GP2GP to transfer records
Bury PCT has become the latest PCT using INPS Vision to begin using electronic GP2GP record transfers of patient records. The system was deployed simultaneously across all 33 practices in the PCT last last month. All use Vision and have Choose and Book and release one of the Electronic Prescription Service installed. Bury PCT had […]
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Great Ormond Street gets single sign on
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is set to use a single sign on system that will not only cut the number of passwords clinicians need to access patient information, but also give them a converged view of data from different applications. The system will be deployed initially at the hospital to enable access to a […]
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Milton Keynes implements WinPath pathology system
Milton Keynes General NHS Trust has announced that it has gone live with the WinPath pathology system from software developers CliniSys. The trust’s previous pathology system, OPUS from Supporta plc, needed replacing urgently because Milton Keynes was the only user remaining and there were concerns over ongoing support, development, and hardware issues. The new WinPath system went first live […]
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